[openstack-dev] Cross distribution talks on Friday

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Tue Dec 23 14:53:47 UTC 2014


On Dec 23, 2014, at 2:17 AM, Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org> wrote:

> On 12/19/2014 11:55 PM, Ihar Hrachyshka wrote:
>> Note that OSLO_PACKAGE_VERSION is not public.
> 
> Well, it used to be public, it has been added and discussed a few years
> ago because of issues I had with packaging.
> 
>> Instead, we should use
>> PBR_VERSION:
>> 
>> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/pbr/packagers.html#versioning
> 
> I don't mind switching, though it's going to be a slow process (because
> I'm using OSLO_PACKAGE_VERSION in all packages).
> 
> Are we at least *sure* that using OSLO_PACKAGE_VERSION is now deprecated?

It’s not marked as deprecated [1], but I think we added PBR_VERSION because the name OSLO_PACKAGE_VERSION made less sense to someone outside of OpenStack who isn’t familiar with the fact that the Oslo program manages pbr.

Doug

[1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/pbr/tree/pbr/packaging.py#n641

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> Thomas
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